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Old 10-26-2007, 09:40 AM
EmmaRiddle EmmaRiddle is offline
 
Post Dan Radcliffe & Michael Gambon shoot HBP in Lacock

Last night both Dan Radcliffe & Michael Gambon (Dumbledore) were on location in Lacock to film scenes for Half-Blood Prince. This is presumably for the part where their characters talk Horace Slughorn into returning to Hogwarts.

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“The part I saw was the walk to, and entry into the house. They did about 6 takes. When I left they were shooting them leaving the house, and you could hear Slughorn’s voice agreeing to take the job and demanding a pay rise. Inside the doorway I could see a white staircase and light blue walls. Michael Gambon was really nice and took a moment to walk over and speak to some of the children and parents watching the set. He asked if everyone was cold and said he was freezing. He was wearing the gray robes he has worn before in other Potter films. Daniel was wearing trainers, T shirt and jacket.”
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“The ‘churchyard’ type props are actually parts of a fake war memorial which was set up along the end of Church Street."
Reportedly Michael Gambon was wearing a green cast on his hand, to show where Dumbledore's blackened limb would be added in later with special effects.

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"We sat down about 10 metres from the entrance to the house I previously told you about, where all of the filming was happening. I saw the doubles for both harry and dumbledore (complete with plastic beard protector!), who helped the crew block out the scenes before the actual cast arrived. It was all pretty intresting, but then I suddenly saw Daniel Radcliffe and Michael Gambon (in FANTASTIC dumbledore costume) walking towards the set! They actually filmed a scene in front of us! All the kids in our group were given lollipops so that ‘when we say ‘action’, you keep quiet!’ everyone was really lovely and friendly to us.

100% sure it is Slughorn’s house, the scene we watched involved Harry and Dumbledore basically walking through the garden gate together. The moonlight simulater was brilliant and there were smoke generators which finished the whole atmosphere off perfectly.”
The local newspaper is once again full of gems.

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A Warner Bros spokesman on set said: "Daniel and the rest of the cast love being here. They just think its absolutely beautiful.

"Tonight there is a really good atmosphere and I know Daniel is really happy fans turned up."
Pictures from the set can be seen here and below;







Thanks to Clumsy_Gal_101 for the tip!

Filming is set to continue tonight.

Source: The Leaky Cauldron